Chapter 241 The Shadow Returns
In the north of Obion Island, the Lead Castle became the palace of the Demon Prince.
In the long past, Tzeentch deprived Be'lak of his power and sealed the power of the "Grand Unifier" in the "Crown of Dominance", turning Be'lak into a weak shadow.
Once the darling of Chaos, he became the crowned one, and each anointing of the "Eternal Chosen" was an insult to Bilak's banter.
Of course, the initially upgraded person would not let the dark gods punish him, and it never gave up its struggle.
It witnessed the death of the first "Eternal Chosen" Mokai under the Hammer of Sigmar. It once tried to steal the crown during the coronation ceremony of "The Glory Man" Kaderon, and it secretly gave every "Eternal Chosen" a Countless stumbling blocks.
Apparently, it never regained its power.
If you want to recast the demon body, Be'lak needs majestic energy. "Crown of Dominance" is the best choice, but it is not the only way.
"The Fat Giant Rat" Sfeko knelt down under the throne obsequiously, describing the success of the battle on the front line in a cunning voice.
They have occupied half of Obien, and the army has reached the north side of Stonehenge.
The resistance of the Obien people was fierce, and the magic masters who controlled the wind of beasts even irreversibly transformed themselves into dragons.
When he discovered that five old human men had turned into unruly dragons, Sfeko was almost shocked. Fortunately, its master had more terrifying power.
A stupid bloodthirsty maniac who embarked on the road to unification came to Obien from the Chaos Wasteland in the far north.
Although it is only "Unbridled Fury", a member of the Eighth Legion of Khorne, it is already deadly enough for the mortal realm.
Sifeko still remembers the first dragon that fell. It was torn into three pieces by the bloodthirsty maniac, and the dragon's blood fell into rain.
Such a powerful bloodthirsty demon is just a slave of Sfeko's great master.
In the middle of Obien Island, deep in the forest, the largest and most core Oganwen Stonehenge stands here.
On the north side of Stonehenge, the once primeval forest has been transformed into a swamp by magic. The mist is entrenched in the forest, providing cover for the monsters awakened by the Truth Speaker.
The huge Obion giant threw boulders to the north. The whistling stones could crush a large number of ratmen without aiming, but the gap in the rat tide was quickly filled. Tens of thousands of Skaven were enough to use them. Bodies filled the swamp.
Different from the small-scale wars of humans, whenever the Skaven dispatch their troops, there will be a boundless sea of rats. The number of lives in the underground empire is pale and feeble.
Even if he is the most powerful warrior, how many ratmen can he kill in one day?
Hundreds of thousands? Or millions?
The number of slave rats is countless even for the Skaven clans themselves. If the battlefield is close to the clan, each larger clan can pull out nearly 100 million Skaven soldiers and have a steady stream of newborns as a reserve force.
Except for the battle where the Lustrian Snake God came to the world, there has never been any battle that completely wiped out the rat tide. Only the rat tide collapsed on its own.
To the south of the battlefield, the fertile soil around Stonehenge no longer supports crops, but is replaced by bloodthirsty plants.
The Word of Truth controls the magical energy brimming beside Oghamwen's monolith, providing "the gift of life" to the warriors on the northern front.
As long as there is a breath left, powerful ancient magic can save the injured.
In the northern sky, the elderly elders have turned into monsters, using their lives to delay the progress of the bloodthirsty demon.
The steady, mature wizard had desperately broken through and left Obien a month ago, and was looking for reinforcements from the outside world.
Now, the voices echoing in the minds of the warriors were green and weak. Fortunately, the apprentices of the Truth Speakers were also not weak spellcasters.
The apprentices continued to use the "voice of command" to create a thunderous sound in the enemy's ears, causing the timid ratmen to partially collapse. The ratmen who retreated out of fear collided with the charging comrades, causing the ratmen to collapse. The advance of the tide was extremely unsatisfactory.
Inside Stonehenge, apprentices prayed to the "God of Hunting and Fighting" one after another, and the blessings of courage fell on the bloody Obien warriors in the north. The surge in strength and skill allowed the warriors to barely maintain the battle line.
They could have persisted until exhaustion, but the battlefield was always changing rapidly.
In the swamp where the two armies were fighting, another mysterious blue smoke suddenly rose.
Evil screams filled the air, and the soldiers on both sides disappeared into the blue.
Witnessing this "fog of death", the hands and feet of the disciples of the Truth Speaker were cold, and fear and hesitation captured their hearts.
A few brave men broke free from fear and broke through the legendary "fog of death", but how can the apprentices fight against the former truth-speaker?
The giants at the Oghamstone no longer threw rocks and broken trees. There were new orders echoing in their simple minds, asking them to destroy the Oghamstone.
But the apprentice's order also appeared at the same time, requiring the giants to protect the Ogham Stone until the last moment.
The giants of Albion fell into a sluggish state under two completely opposite orders. They didn't know whether to protect or destroy. The truth speaker who fell into darkness almost caused the giants to mutiny.
Some figures covered by black cloaks appeared at the end of the northern fog. They used red or gray cloth to cover their faces that were deformed into beasts.
But several pairs of ferocious horns revealed their true nature.
Chaos has long changed the wise men of the past. Be'lak's shadowbringer raised the staff of darkness and showed no mercy to his former compatriots.
The evil magic creates deep fear in the eyes of the Truth Speaker's apprentice. The Shadowbringer just takes out his finger bones and releases a deadly ray of pure darkness.
The corpses of sick babies were thrown into the swamps, and a curse fell on the battlefield, turning the corpses into living corpses, offering all they had to the Lord of Shadows.
The sickly laughter disappeared into the mist, and the Shadowbringer could already see the victory that was close at hand.
The shrill curses and murmurs of hatred from the south shattered the shadowbringer's illusions.
The remaining apprentices of the Truth Speaker did not hesitate to use the environment to arrange beast skulls and fresh animal skins, and used their own lives as sacrifices to summon the "incarnation of the beast element".
Each living life spilled blood, and the giant forked antlers emerged in the blood-colored fog in the south.
A flame burned and danced under the antlers.
The animal skin failed to cover the monster's internal organs, and the giant beast's flaming heart beat strangely, and its roar full of bloodthirsty could be heard throughout the battlefield.
The rat tide disintegrated instantly, and the unnatural fear and bone-chilling chill broke the will of the Skaven army.
The terrifying magical creature that was half human and half beast had just appeared and devoured the summoner. Its long scarlet tongue was still exploring towards the north, where it had the hunting target designated by the summoner.
Magic rays and demonic flames fell on the location of the incarnation of the beast element, but the evil beast of "Barbarian God" Tal disappeared in the blink of an eye. The attack of the shadow messenger fell into the empty mud, and the pure black flames burned in the mud. Spreading aimlessly in the ground.
A few screams came from other directions in the fog, and the shadows of the trees dancing in the fog were like terrifying ghosts.
The low moans of deer and wolves spread death and panic from south to north, and the entire fog became a hunting ground for the incarnation of beast elements.
Even behind the Shadowbringers, in the northern sky, the battle between the bloodthirsty ones and the dragons could not bring such fear to the fallen ones.